Jul 7, 2011 · To search forward in Vim for cake, I'd type /cake, but the cursor jumps to the first match when I press return. Is there a Vim command analogous to "find next"?

Nov 8, 2010 · In Windows, I would have done a search for finding a word inside a folder. Similarly, I want to know if a specific word occurs inside a directory containing many sub-directories and files. My …

Feb 19, 2012 · Optionally Word boundary "pass" Word boundary Single char End of input which I would not expect to match "high pass h3" at all. The regular expression: pass (no metacharacters) will …

What is an elegant way to look for a string within another string in Python, but only if the substring is within whole words, not part of a word? Perhaps an example will demonstrate what I mean:

Aug 15, 2016 · I found 194 questions on this site when I search for "how to find a word in a string". Are you saying none of those answers helped?

Mar 19, 2014 · Here's a program that will return only a complete match. That is, it will only return a word if that word completely matches the exact word you're searching for. If some word in sentence has …

May 8, 2013 · What you want to find is a word boundary. A word boundary \b is an anchor that matches on a change from a non word character (\W) to a word character (\w) or vice versa.

Jan 19, 2016 · find "yourword" filename to show your word in any line of a file. yourcommandgivingsoneoutput | find "yourword" to examine the output of some command for your …

Jul 3, 2015 · The (?!@) negative look-ahead will make word match only if @ does not appear immediately after word: word(?!@) If you need to fail a match when a word is followed with a …

If you want to identify a whole word in a string and change the content of that word you can do this way. Your final string stays equals, except the word you treated.